Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux?

Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by base698 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:30AM (#13318064)

I find it strange that you think the CLI is clunky on Linux.

Up until recently Mac shipped with an 3.x version of Bash. To star it had a version of sed that was in effect broken in several use cases. Mac also lacks the system profile capabilities of Linux such as perf and the new BPF tools.

Most of the tools like top, netstat, strace, and vmstat aren't as up to date on Mac either.

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by marios on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:33AM (#13318530)

Mac doesn't have perf, but it has DTrace. They added it in OS X 10.5 which was released 9 years ago.

Regarding the other tools you mention, keep in mind they are system tools. You cannot simply take the source of Linux netstat, compile it on your mac and call it a day. The data displayed by these tools is obtained from the kernel and different kernels have different interfaces (for instance, OpenBSD doesn't have /proc which is where Linux netstat gets information).

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by base698 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:35AM (#13319058)

Dtrace is nice but everything seems trending away from it.

I know you can't just compile and call it a day... Kind of what I was getting at :)

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by matwood on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:13AM (#13318389)

Ships with sure, but iTerm2 and brew install bash/vim/etc... fix those issues.

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